But that's the way Broome Public Library assistant Dan Lee, wanted to commemorate his three years service.

"But I'm very proud to have 'Broome Library' on my shoulder because Broome's an amazing place where all sorts of things are possible and having a place like that that's at the centre of the community and the centre of town and everyone comes in and out of there... It's been really great," says Mr Lee.

Mr Lee's library tattoo is just the latest in an unusual collection accumulating on various parts of his body. The back of one leg is ordained with a Laotian sticky-rice menu.

"Because I had to eat white rice for about three weeks in Laos while I was working on this play that I wrote about Broome," says Mr Lee.

The other leg has a list of instructions which accompanied a 20 dollar plastic kettle. While this may seem like an unusual tattoo, Mr Lee says the instructions themselves, and often the world we live in are far stranger.

"We belong to a species that can put a man on the moon but can't tell the handle from the spout of a kettle without instructions. It's got like 'Number one: lid. Number two: switch. Number three: handle.' This made me laugh. It made me realise that we're kind of on an absurd planet a lot of the time. And it reminds me not to take life too seriously," Mr Lee says.

The question that many people considering tattoos ask themselves is 'Will I regret this in ten or 20 years?' But Mr Lee takes an antithetic approach to tattoos.

"I kind of play 'regret chicken' with my tattoos. I feel a bit like putting stuff on that you might potentially regret is part of the thing with tattooing... Everything I do in my life permanently affects things, and things change. These are all real parts of my life."